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Response to Comment on “How Cats Lap: Water Uptake by Felis catus ”

Published:2011-10-21 Issue:6054 Volume:334 Page:311-311
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Stocker Roman¹,Aristoff Jeffrey M.²,Jung Sunghwan³,Reis Pedro M.¹⁴

Affiliation:

1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

3. Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.

4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Abstract

We return to the physics of cat lapping to show that our proposed scaling analysis predicts the functional dependencies revealed by the experimental data more accurately than a recently proposed alternative description by Nauenberg. Experimental verification of functional dependencies, rather than single numerical values, represents the appropriate test for any scaling argument.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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